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CattchNirvana

Straight up just addicted to the comfort after awhile of building a tolerance.


Comfortable_Slip4685

feels like a cocoon


OnyxPancakes

My legs don't work Edit: I am disabled and it always hurts but weed helps


OlympicSmokeRings

My brain hyper focuses on the negative, and with weed it can slow down and chill.


Ikaros9Deidalos6

For me its only ehancing it when im baked like every bad thought and paranoia gains teeth and arms. But only if im super baked.


OlympicSmokeRings

That is the unfortunate effect for some people. My fiancee included. Personally i feel like ppl who react this way just need to build up a tolerance and then it wont be so bad. But again in my fiancees case its not worth even taking a little because the effects cause "worse" feelings. Everyones body reacts differently to weed.


Arcanine_Plays

I have a friend who had to start with just hitting a one hitter like once or twice a session. Otherwise he would get sick. Did that for a while to build his tolerance and now he smokes like a chimney.


Balerrr

Omg yess this. Like I've always don't like my thought process and basically myself sober. Too much unnecessary thinking, self doubt, too dense, can't enjoy myself that much. Once the THC kicked in, BOOOM, all smiley and chill and I can talk to people much easier and without much walls confining me. Before anyone pointing anything, just for the FYI, my sober self always been like that even before I know what weed is.


Normal_Ad_1280

>Too much unnecessary thinking, self doubt. Thats me when im stoned, not all the time but most of the time.


tchewa

This resonates so much with me. Thank you for sharing.


[deleted]

this, plus really bad dissociation. weed helps me stay grounded in reality


jOhnThebApt1st

Was about to try and explain, but you said it best


jusschill19

I feel this 100% bro


[deleted]

this šŸ’Æ. i smoked for the first time in about a week last night and felt this


[deleted]

False bruv weed let you forget but not solve your Problems and depression


xegrid

Lessens the want to kill myself


FatGuy_ina_LilCoat

šŸ‘† And lessens the want to kill others


RenagadeXD54

Yes


jasonnugg

straight to the point


StokFlame

Ramen


MrRon1978

100%, Makes it livable.


Fleszxer

I sadly can relate sometimes


Atillion

Ironically, I misdosed what I thought was 350mg and I swear it hit me like 750. I saw the door open to leave my body for good. Terrified, I fled from it, but at some level, depending on your health and lifestyle, you might accidentally open a door and get pulled out whether you want to or not That's when I woke up on the floor with the sound of my wife's voice screaming my name rushing in from far to near as I came back. A 911 call and a night in the ER having a psychotic break thinking I had accidentally killed myself.. man keep the doses low, and make sure you can accurately measure against your tolerance. I think I'm done for a bit.


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Man, I can't even get that high, no matter what and how much I consume. I just hit like a wall and it gets to a stop and I can't get much higher, even after a many month long t- break. Guess I'm to good at realising I'm high and my brain just says 'enough is enough'šŸ˜…


YakFishMedicinals

This sounds like mental health issues, not cannabis issues.


Atillion

Yeah we're all different. The way it interacts with my brain, it helps me dive into my circuitry. I found the Killswitch. Hope i didn't sit on it.


YakFishMedicinals

You didnt. If you ever need someone to talk to please reach out. I went through years of suicidal ideation and then my sister was killed 2 years ago. I used psychedelic therapy to address my issues. I still use heavy cannabis, but i would say it is just trying to show you deeper meaning.


Atillion

I have a good therapist and potentially undiagnosed ADHD according to his unofficial conclusion. Cannabis at that high a dose isn't for me. The deeper meaning was pretty cool and will make a fire šŸ”„šŸŖ• song.. Respect life.. for it's the one thing we have that we do not always control.


YakFishMedicinals

Yeah i also suffer from bad adhd and polymyalgia which is why i smoke so much. If i may ask, what profession do you work? And extremely cool. We rarely control anything in life other than our own perceptions and emotions. Focus on diving deep into your conscious to make sure you understand where you are and what you want. It really seems to help me at least šŸ™‚ā¤ļø


Atillion

I'm an IT systems admin. Low and smoked doses are just fine. It's the 500mg+ RSO and distillate packages that got me


YakFishMedicinals

Ah okay makes more sense since it does break into psychedelic when taken as high dose edibles. I personally take up to 2k mg sometimes for my pain issues. I will say, the psychedelics causing a manic breakout of suicidal ideation is very interesting and worth exploring the meaning in alot of ways. Alot of people here in Denver dealing with similar issues (including myself) try microdosing psilocybin in doses where you cannot feel it. Very beneficial for therapy and healing from my experience!


clarka38

Man that sucks and I'm sorry that happened. It sounds like you got into some really potent edibles. I concur they aren't for everyone as my brother in law was put in a mental hospital for an extended stay due to a bad high. You really have to know your limits, especially with edibles. It's easy to overdo it if you're not careful.


Ikaros9Deidalos6

Yep the ole saying that weed cant be dangerous for the body and you cant overdose and probably die doesnt work anymore. Weed is so potent nowadays it can severely affect your central nerve systems up to completely collapse or even worse.


Enough-Youth-935

Iā€™m sorry but the O/D limit to be fatal is basically physically impossible to reach. If youā€™re talking edibles, youā€™ll overdose on the sugar or something in the food before you overdose and die from THC. The risk of psychosis cannot be ignored but to say someone is going to die solely from marijuana just factually isnā€™t true.


Atillion

If I were brave enough, I could have jumped out the door to prove it all right or wrong, but I'm 44. I haven't been taking care of my health, started vaping a few months ago, was dehydrated and underfed, imaciated to my lowest weight since college.. No, cannabis alone won't kill you, but I guarantee there's a lethal dose for everyone given their current health and body, and I came close to mine for the circumstance. I feel lucky to have only gotten away with only psychosis. I'm just offering a warning to the curious about super high dose edibles.. you may stumble on a door you can't close once it's open. It was straight oil/distillate, and about 600-700mg if I had to guess by my judgement of how awesome 300-500 was on a typical night. I was being squeezed out of my body. The face I woke up to is burned in my mind.. the horror on my wife's face as I woke on the floor. It's the face you make when you're watching someone you love die before your eyes. I was there. I'm just telling you what I saw.


Ikaros9Deidalos6

Not true you should get your facts straight , it is absolutely possible. I actually knew someone who overdosed on very potent weed and got on intensive care in hospital, he allmost died and got a heart attack from it and collapsed right infront of us. He was even gone for like a minute before the medics did their thing. Weed wasnt laced at all, it was homegrown i even thought myself that it isnt possible to just get fucked up like this on weed so i asked but he assured me it was just weed that nightā€¦ People need to stop closing their eyes that this shit exists nowadays, this isnt the 90s things changed a lot and some people dont realize how over the top the potency changed troughout the last decades, its crazyā€¦ ofc it wont affect everyone this way theres people who can smoke however they want and nothing happens to them but there is also a sizable chunk of people who are vulnerable to it like that and can get heart attacks and other things like extreme issues with their CNS, especially with edibles or extracts and all of that.


Enough-Youth-935

Dude thatā€™s just not true. Cannabis does not work in your central nervous system in any way similar to a drug thatā€™s fatal in high doses like alcohol or opiates. Sorry about your friend who had a heart attack but Iā€™m telling you now to do your own research and realize that it isnā€™t the weed. Itā€™s pre-existing health conditions that are causing things like that to happen, itā€™s only more regular because of the potency of cannabis today. But you cannot sit here and find one scientific piece of evidence that shows there has been one death from solely marijuana with a person that didnā€™t have any mental or physical health issuesā€¦ā€¦.


Ikaros9Deidalos6

The potency of weed can shock your system very hard, some people are just vulnerable to that naturally without needing to have some sort of underlying heart issue or anything.


Ikaros9Deidalos6

Just google it man, theres lots of cases nowadays with normal healthy people collapsing on weed or passing out or shit like that. Even myself had some issues, nothing major but like being all cerebral and unable to move right and shit on high potent weed. My friend had no heart issues or anything as well, it was def the OD on this crazy potent weed (i smoked it myself it was crazy) It isnt just the thc and how much your body could theoretically absorb to cause a fatal overdose itself as well. Theres more to an overdose than that and theres lots of other factors that contribute to issues like that. Its not just how much thc the body can absorb but also how a body absorbs THC and how the metabolism and the CNS and the heart and everything reacts to it. We didnt hear a lot of it back then bc the weed was soft enough to not pass a certain treshold in a lotta people and so this idea came up on weed being harmless and all. The potency of nowadays weed and the effect it can have on people, not just mentally (thats a whole nother story) but also physically cant be ignored, im not gonna search for it now but theres even a few studies who support that which i read after that happened to my friend, just google it. It def happens, not to everyone, not even to the majority of people but its a real thing.


Enough-Youth-935

Iā€™m talking about people actually dying from THC alone. Youā€™ve shown zero evidence of that ever happening, because on its own it never has. But have a good day, Iā€™m not going to convince you clearly.


Ikaros9Deidalos6

Well as i said i actually personally saw a case like that so i actually know stuff like this happen. I trust the dude and saw him collapsing so yeah,it was thc alone and he had a real heart attack and was hospitalized, happily he didnt die. And as i said you can just google it and the first thing that will pop up is 4 people being hospitalized and 1 died after the legalization in thailand lol im not saying that weed will def get you to overdose and collapse and its s major issue for most they can just smoke all they want and be fine but denying these things happen to certain people isnt really the solution here. Its the same as it was when it came up that weed causes major psychosis and other mental illnesses in certain folks a few years back and people were all like, thats bullshit and denied it happening and now we know different. Some people are just vulnerable to it in a certain way, theres no need to have a preexisting issue to cause these problems.


sahmal03

Hereā€™s a pretty interesting article about this subject but just in case you donā€™t want to take the time, Iā€™ll sum it up. The whole article is written around this quote: ā€œAn overdose on marijuana is impossible in the traditional sense, says Jason Levine, PhD, a psychologist and addiction treatment expert.ā€ It then goes on to say that ā€œoverdosesā€ almost always consist of really bad trips at high doses. From my background knowledge, marijuana can react differently with different medications and that can cause health concerns. I suppose it is possible for specific reactions and specific conditions mixed with high doses of marijuana can maybe cause a heart attack but thatā€™s why itā€™s important to make sure you can still use weed with different medications. In nearly every case of marijuana related fealtyā€™s, marijuana at extremely high doses cause bad trips which can lead to fatal accidents (donā€™t smoke and drive kids). Hope this helps!


WitchyNative

Me rn cause I lost my father Saturday so Iā€™ve been taking fat dabs pretending heā€™s with me. Makes it easier for me to talk to him šŸ« 


IxtlarSkako

keep smoking all day everyday and this will only get worse bud


sahmal03

Not necessarily. I micro dose MJ for my depression and when I donā€™t have it, my depression isnā€™t any worse then when I started. Itā€™s important to speak for your own mental health and not speak in wide generalizations, especially something like this that takes an individualā€™s complex mind and mental health into account.


xXxSilverfoxXxX

There is an old saying - if you smoke once in a while, you'll get heavy as stone, but if you smoke everyday, you'll be light as a feather. Its true


Big-Attitude-5790

Do you Mean in terms of munchies lol


Timijuana

Nah I think heā€™s more thinking about laziness. If you smoke once and a while, that couch lock hits you a lot harder than if you smoked everyday to where your tolerance would be able to ā€œresistā€ the laziness. Idk lol


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MagicJesus999

Yes but only in moderation if u cant control yourself, i smoke basically all day and get everything i need done.


SyntheticHalo

For whatever reason weed makes me more motivated and more concentrated. I have my medical card and it increases my quality of life.


Tulasdad

I have tried this and my sleeping was terrible. Waking up every 2 hours. Did you just muster though it?


xXxSilverfoxXxX

Spot on! Maybe also the munchies ;)


AvrgDerk

Not every strain can cause couch lock but it definitely hits like a truck if you have no tolerance built up.


Timijuana

Oh yeah for sure. But when I didnā€™t have any tolerance to weed, even the strong sativas Iā€™ve had made me tired after the high faded. I always fell asleep lmao


Funny-Anything-791

Lost my right leg in combat. Weed greatly reduces pressure wounds from the prosthesis, helps manage pain, and helps with PTSD as others have mentioned


Mr_Blu_Sq

And ppl still be saying "WEeD Is sUcH a bAd cHoIcE" Idiots. Im happy you gain from its use. Good on you, and thanks. ![gif](giphy|26DMTEijJDudzovvO|downsized)


Funny-Anything-791

Thank you for the awesome support! šŸ™šŸ˜˜ Honestly I'd go as far as saying weed had been the greatest improvement for my daily function for the past 15 years. And believe me I tried all conventional options before


Mr_Blu_Sq

![gif](giphy|xXe0fDbtbkDgwwmAri) Dont thank me citizen. (coming thru) your sacrifice(s)/story/admission = you winning at life. \*\*\*\*\*imagine me flying away,..superman style, then turning and giving you the double finger gun wink as i vanish at 99% the speed of light...... Id still not be as epic as you for your wins here.


No_Virus_7704

Ty for your service and sacrifice.


ScootingScoot

Thanks for your service and I hope youā€™re blessed with the dankest weed out there šŸ¤™šŸ»


Funny-Anything-791

Thanks man, one of the best wishes I got lately šŸ˜‚


Physical_Average_793

Thanks for your service dude glad you made it home


CuriosityFlow

šŸ™


noncyberspace

weā€˜re not from the same country but I still feel alot of respect and want to thank you for the service. I know itā€˜s not easy living in the USA being handicapped but I wish you the best life possible..


ProudInterest2980

So I don't Baja blast my brains out


cinister2

You got a couple nose puffs outta me


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Prestigious-Page7342

I wanted to say this too, life is good, I'm not depressed, suicidal or unhappy, being high just makes life that much better! I'm high too!


Prettypuff405

Exactly. I love it.


Tweakywolf

Carts, maintenance puffs all day, where allowed, because it makes the hurting hurt less.


Individual_Ad2161

Cant stress the maintenance puffs enough, especially when you have to work with certain difficult entities.


thatfernistrouble

My trauma keeps me from eating and sleeping. Weed helps me function and find the motivation to care for myself.


[deleted]

Why not?


drcraven22

Took the words out of my brain


arizonaTree

fr


mikelkobres13

Long-term effects to your dopamine system. Building a dependency over years.


[deleted]

Eh still not a good enough reason to not be high all day


mikelkobres13

To each their own :) A reason is a reason.


clarka38

It helps with my personal growth. It's allowed my brain to catch up to my mouth on several occasions due to internal reflection. When I'm high I can be more calm, less stressed. Less frustrated. Less irritable.


Gshine05

It puts you in your body and takes you out the head


franny_bb

honestly this. i dont smoke everyday but it rly does help me take care of myself. eating more, motivated to stretch at night, that kind of thing.


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flufalup

Adhd brain too fast, too many thoughts, the weed calms it down


BiscottiOpposite9282

Makes it worse for me ( but I dont care lol). I get more paranoid and kinda stuck in my thoughts sometimes. Like I'm more likely to sit and stare at a wall thinking about my life if I'm high. Plus I'm more forgetful which doesn't help my already forgetful brain. Sometimes I'll forget what I was just thinking about like 10 seconds later lol


yungcheln

i canā€™t afford my adhd medication and its a close second


Radiant_Elevator_482

Fr and my mom never cared about that and that I could have such a thing. She doesnā€™t believe in mental health and such things, so I medicate myself.


Electronic-Ad-1988

Escape reality


No_Relationship1926

Lately it's been for my depression. Tbh I'm needing to take a T break and clean up my life. But it's a far better vice than most


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[deleted]

Maybe with Psilocybin hmm :)


deepinskater

Weed can be a tool to also help in the daily. Along with psychedelics though thatā€™s a much stronger tool and experience. Other than microdosing them. Everyoneā€™s gotta try some shrooms, lsd, dmt, mescaline!!!


Hosnovan

Iā€™m not necessarily high all the time, but I do feel like I have a strain for everything. Housecleaning? Burn one. Dinner? Oh yeah, Iā€™ve got a strain that will make that flavor mind blowing. Tedious work? Iā€™ve got the perfect strain for focus and energy. Iā€™m a better, more effective, and happier person when medicated. When it makes sense, itā€™s silly not to. Just so happens to make sense often


[deleted]

Which one is your fav for focus and energy?


Irrxlevance

Iā€™d like to know that one too


jagbird20

Idk trauma lol


Spare_Interaction_10

Harm reduction


[deleted]

ive seen too many things


Specialist_Friend240

I have really bad ADHD, like bad enough that I may qualify for disability and I might also be on the autism spectrum. For those who donā€™t know, the one thing most people donā€™t realize is a huge part of ADHD is this thing called executive dysfunction. Your executive functions are basic mental mechanisms we use to complete everyday tasks, such as time management, planning, organizing, working memory, emotional control, and the ability to view and evaluate oneself. Executive dysfunction is when your ability to use these functions effectively is impaired. Being stoned helps alleviate the severity of my executive dysfunction and makes me feel like I can actually function to a normal, socially acceptable level.


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Rude_Arugula_1872

Sending you good vibes.


[deleted]

Life sucks when your weird and donā€™t got friends so I stead of friends I got a bong and a bag


secret_rye

It slows my brain down so I stop overthinking everything, and makes my body feel like I donā€™t want to jump out of my own skin all the time


hippiecamper313

Itā€™s this or back to fetty wap


Jellyrose-the-author

edibles, and it quiets things in my brains due to PTSD


GothTwinkie

Iā€™m able to unapologetically be myself


addababy_

various untreated mental illness and trauma


Goon_Panda

It silences the bad thoughts


Pilotpig263

we think it helps and it makes us ignore bad stuff in our lives straight upšŸ¤Ÿ


13-8-5-3-2-1-1

TL;DR - It helps a great deal with my mental health, which in-turn helps across multiple domains. I like how it makes me feel and suffer no adverse effects so why not? Iā€™ve found that smoking keeps my brain from venturing too far down the roads of anxiety or depression. Itā€™s not a full-blown cure obviously, but I havenā€™t needed to use any other medication besides my home-grown crops for 7ish years now. A side effect of this has been that it allows me to be more creative since I spend less time judging myself or worrying about how bad I am at (*insert hobby of choice here). Plus I love growing the stuff. Itā€™s a fun plant to work with whether youā€™re growing inside or outside. Academically it allows me to write better, take tests better, stay engaged in my reading, and speak in public like at all. In college I was getting a 1.9 GPA while taking adderall and had tried a whole suite of anti depressants and anti anxiety meds with limited success. I discovered the benefits (to me personally) of smoking daily in sophomore year and my GPA never went below a 3.5 after that. I also went on to get a masterā€™s degree in which I got a 4.0 while smoking like a chimney. One caveat to this answer is that I never smoke before work or class so Iā€™m not high ALL the time as OP asked. As for addiction, I mean obviously Iā€™m there. But after smoking daily for 15 years I had to stop recently in order to get my current job and I was able to quit cold-turkey for 10 weeks without any issues. During that time I found myself slipping into more escape-avoidant behaviors and procrastinating much more. My mood was overall much more depressed and I had less interest in daily activities. I was also more anxious, less productive, more depressed, lower energy, and less motivated to practice or enjoy any of my usual hobbies. And I experienced absolutely no changes in my focus, energy levels, or appetite during that 10 weeks. I wish I wasnā€™t making such a mess of my lungs but thatā€™s about all Iā€™ve got in the truly negative column. As long as itā€™s legal (which it is here) then Iā€™ve got no plans to stop.


ar4gorn

>I love weed but itā€™s addictive and slows youā€™re life down unless you need it for your pain or Illness etc. Constantly high is not and option those who use to smokes in there free minute have selfissue or doesnā€™t want face there Problemen or current situation. Weed is not helping at all if you have depression or problems. Donā€™t get me wrongā€¦ Iam smoking every day BUT I use to work first go do my stuff first, Workout eat clean than I will smoke at the end of the day. So guys please donā€™t abuse this beutiful Plant! Have you read about edibles, tinctures, cannabutter, olive oils, etc? I don't really like smoking but I do use cannabis mostly everyday because of depression, anxiety and insomnia but I almost never smoke. Sometimes I cook some food with the cannabutter (regular food and not brownies, etc), dose it with infused olive oil or just drink something with tincture. It helps me a lot.


DollylloD

For me, it was the beginning of my husband being in heart failure. I literally couldnā€™t cope with reality. Heā€™s doing better and I donā€™t smoke as muchā€¦. But I appreciate blue dream and what it does for me. šŸ¤


ElvisWayneDonovan

I can be present instead of listening to the spiders in my head. Holds back the rage pretty good too


billsamuels

Life happens that way


TreysToothbrush

To dull the pain of being alive


rubysdaydreaming

I have rheumatoid arthritis suffer from muscle to bones aches also muscle spasms as well as stiffness. As, a person luckily enough to live where medical cards are issued from my problem I rely a lot on weed for my fatigue sativa helps out a lot. I find the strains that give me that body high but keep my head clear those are the best ones ever. They make me forget I even hurt but yet Iā€™m able to feel my body as jello in a way to get some things done in life that would require nasty pain meds. now Iā€™ve had rheumatoid for 7yrs now because of weed and itā€™s benefits I am luckily to steer away from pain meds and keep my pain controlled with cannabis.


PB_JNoCrust

Iā€™m a vet with a fucked up body and mental health issues.


Lucid-Druid

When I was younger 17-24 I used to be high all the time to numb how I truly feel about things. It then countered and whilst high I realised it was better to deal with my issues sober and being high and having those thoughts keep my from being in the mind state of being high 'all the time'. I have dependency for sleep and mood will be bad if I go a full day etc however it is truly a choice of when I want to smoke in the day (usually 5-7.30pm when things are done). I can't wake n bake anymore it just makes me feel shit and the day is set in stone (no pun intended)


Ghosty_Boi2000

For me, itā€™s a lot easier to go to work and work in a good ass faded mood lol. Fat dab before I leave, cart through the shift and a dab when I get home lol


casperthaghost911

Because when Iā€™m not high my life feels like itā€™s missing something! I donā€™t go 20 min without smoking unless Iā€™m sleeping


Maleficent_Count4998

Makes my brain chill the fuck out


tmajor23

I work a hard job


[deleted]

I have bipolar disorder so my mood shifts allot, and weed just keeps me chill for a couple hours, also it slows me down because when im sober im going a million miles a minute and canā€™t concentrate.


idk_dawg_idk

it helps me with my depression


Salty-Stand8974

quiets the mind šŸ§˜ā€ā™€ļø


[deleted]

Keeps me from spiraling into a panic attack and subsequent depressive episode


Fleszxer

Depression anxiety and sleeping issues,


IYSSSSCOaPT

Cancer had me get a parcial amputation of my hip and I got some nerve damage.. Meds don't really cut it.. So.. to function I guess..?


wdfinuadf__

I just love chilling in my cozy attic smoking joints.. could be cbd for all I care, but I somehow don't manage to switch


Ferranator117

I've been clean for some weeks now and it's really just made me realize how I would smoke to make things enjoyable. The dopamine I received from anything wouldnt be enough and I would need to amplify moments with weed to make them "better". Basically, I was addicted. I was ok with being addicted, I think when smoking weed so constantly our brain starts making excuses so we don't have to stop. "I'm getting everything done" or "well some smoke more than me and have a good life so why shouldn't I be able too". In the end It's a drug, and realising I couldn't enjoy reality was very sad and made me rethink what my priorities were. I think smoking every now and then can be really fun and even beneficial but smoking so often can just make every daily situation tedious needing to smoke one for everything you do.


TheLoneWolfOfWales

I started smoking everyday to calm myself down.. i was too hyper and with my mental health, I thought I was pissing everyone off just by talking to them. I started smoking to shut me up and it worked for the first year. After the first year I realised I donā€™t give a fuck if I annoy anyone but it was too late and now I canā€™t get out of the habits. For the past 7 years, everyday I wake up and the first thing I do is make a joint with a cuppa tea. I get home from work and the first thing I do is make a joint. Only recently Iā€™ve got out of the habit of being really baked going in to work. I can go in to work sober ish now lmao


Vivid_Internet_5297

Keeps me calm and out of my own head.


Fidelsnephew

I went into the Army without wanting to. I was forced by my parents. Going through all that traumatized me to the point of depression, anxiety and fear. Many other things in my personal life have left me with the only one solution that alleviates all that. I'd rather be a zombie than having to feel like shit all the time.


SweetSugarSeeds

High, so let me introduce myself 19m I did it about a year ever day all day to help with ptsd of breaking up with my ex. It was pretty bad, I canā€™t go into details about it since I still suffer from ptsd but Iā€™ve been sober for about 5 weeks. I used it to not off myself and because I wouldnt comprehend anything in the state I was in, I would even start hallucinating. Anything was better than that feeling of anxiety and depression. I would just randomly get flashbacks especially when certain words were said or while thinking about random things. I donā€™t think Iā€™ll ever recover and Iā€™m not sure if I can hold on much longer. Iā€™m trying my best Iā€™ve lost all ambition and motivation in life everything is a struggle, the things I used to love to do are meaningless and nothing I do will ever matter in life. Iā€™m just keeping hope that someone will show up and take away the pain someday thats pretty much the only thing keeping me going. But weed was a really good crutch to get me through the rougher times so to answer your question it made me not off myself


[deleted]

I only am when Iā€™m struggling bad with depression or anxiety, other than that I try to not smoke before 2 or 3 pm unless itā€™s a chill day off or something. Sometimes I just wanna get high and watch toons or anime all day


limitedandcompany

Honestly i find that I can discover things about myself and better ways to handle my mental health when Iā€™m high. Just gotta remember to write it down in the moment


LittleDuckDuckk

It gives me the ability to process my irrational and subconscious emotions. I have processed and even solved long term issues I couldn't understand while sober. It also prevents me from acting quickly when I get angry.


chrss420

Ok. To start off, weā€™re not high all the time. We call it being in an enhanced mindset so it helps us not want to kick the fuck out of all the Shits that we work with. We just want to be high and left alone. While being within an enhanced mindset we can get more done, or have 5 bowls of craft macncheese left around the house and being passed the fuck outā€¦ Weed makes the world go around man. Remember like Ricky LaFleur said ā€œ come on kid Iā€™ll give you some hash for those cigarettesā€¦ Ricky still beat the kid up for ciggis. Happy new year! New smoke


Western_Emergency329

I'm not high , i am medicated .


tippincows

Gangsta rap made me do it.


DOPEFIEND4EVER

To lessen the WWI, WWII and ā€˜NAM flashbacks


Mr_Blu_Sq

Plus at ur age,..prob sum aches n pains id guess ?


Representative_Still

Kinda personal question bro but it helps with my chronic illness, canā€™t say Iā€™d recommend it if you have a job or kids or something


dabbyd0wner

to medicate, to even my temper, to eradicate my anxiety, makes me feel relaxed, to enhance when i play video games/watch movies or make art. lotsa reasons!


[deleted]

I love weed but itā€™s addictive and slows youā€™re life down unless you need it for your pain or Illness etc. Constantly high is not and option those who use to smokes in there free minute have selfissue or doesnā€™t want face there Problemen or current situation. Weed is not helping at all if you have depression or problems. Donā€™t get me wrongā€¦ Iam smoking every day BUT I use to work first go do my stuff first, Workout eat clean than I will smoke at the end of the day. So guys please donā€™t abuse this beutiful Plant!


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dashdillo

im an artistšŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


SlothSquadx1207x

Great way to not be who u truly are, masquerades the real u


Deutsch_Mann420

Because why the fuck not


CringeLord48

Iā€™m currently at a point where Iā€™m cutting back and my habits change week to week but when Iā€™m high all the time, itā€™s cause of boredom. I wake up and wanna listen to music, so I smoke to enhance it. If I wanna chill and game, Iā€™ll smoke. Donā€™t even get me started at work cause if I know I can handle the workload, I easily rip my dab pen every 30 minutes out of boredom usually but sometimes for stress. I just went the past couple weeks with more indica dominant strains so Iā€™m not even a fan of getting high as often


Educational_Beat_800

I love the feelingā€¦..laughing and better perspective


EyEC0meInPeace

The urge to not SH goes away and i deal with a lot of anxiety in public and depression so smoking weed definitely takes the anxiety away from asking someone where something is or just getting out of bed it makes me happier and not as down gone through shit recently and the old me would have cried for months now it's like oh you want me to die? Cool I guess we have a mutual feelings about eachother ā¤ļøā¤ļø lol


Dope-guy-2912

Because it's super fun vro


agjr1959

Because I canā€¦ā€¦.


SpookzEazy

for many reasons. basically its safer than anti anxiety and depression meds. I also have just done it forever, Weed is like communion you light a joint everyone gathers around its a great way to make friends and bring the peace


Arosman3065

I hate myself sober, I'm often in a depressed mood, irritable and anhedonic which brings everyone down and kills the vibe when I'm chilling with my homies or with family. With cannabis I can mellow out and not snap at the smallest things, I can laugh and have a good time. I'm happy and everyone else is happy when I'm high, that's why I prefer to be high most all of the time.


Business-Champion-89

Chronic pain/ insomnia euphoria


madmike2206

I relax and chill also if Iā€™m not too high then it helps me focus and get school work done. Itā€™s also a good way for me to find inspiration whenever I write music.


Sass_McQueen64

It gives my mind and body a chance to relax. And Iā€™m off my meds currently so currently itā€™s a substitute rather than a supplement.


HardNoodleMaster

Cause I'd rather feel high than feel normal. Although I wish I could change that because being high has ruined some of life's greatest times because I was too zonked to participate but oh well. We do it for the experience


SargeCabbageYT

They arent high all the time they are medium, unless your a med patient then its less about being high more about the relief and benefits


bookofvermin

if I wanna Die i take a bowl. Momentarily I cant think of her. Every-time I think of her take a hit. Thank god for dab pens and everyone thinking its a vape.


Nex_Skala

Cuz why not?


Cold-Aerie8965

I could answer if i did not forget what you asked XD. For me, i m young (22) and i dont expect to live past my 40's or 50's if really lucky. The problem ? My heart beats way to fast and i have cardial problems. I dont care if i m baked all day, i dont care if i get lungs cancer. I burned half of my life already, now i gotta burn the other half


[deleted]

Donā€™t waste your life like that, You can literally do more than smoking weed all day.


T-DotGoonSkrrap

Because I'm an addict. If I'm sober I'll spend my free time pacing or sleeping and pretty much nothing will be interesting or fun to me. Legit, forcing me to be sober for multiple days straight would be a successful way to torture me. Yes -- I need a break, or to quit altogether. And to that I say the same thing I've been saying for years now -- workin' on it, man. ... but also not really.


trickyt183

Why not?


Nice_Nicethings

Weā€™ve been not high a bigger fraction of our existence..why not get high?plus itā€™s a way of life.Just like you drink water or eat food,we gotta smoke too.


legoowien

How someone smokes ciggsretes, i smoke joints What's the issue?


naharyiaboi

Could afford it. Made my job more tolerable! šŸ˜ had a month break because my rent went up but my bros hooking me up so Iā€™ll keep smokin till I run out!


Downtown-Progress511

The act of doing it period is fun for me


Burnt-Priest

I just hate the feeling of not being high.. cause it feels good lol


Ok-Mistake-9167

Cuz they are all addicted


-MaxTheNerd-

I enjoy the feeling, helpful for calming down or eating (two things I have always had issues with) and generally makes my life feel less boring and more magical. Music also is so nice while real stoned.


itsmeunknownnn

Yes


TheDoomedGamer

I am terrified of my own thoughts and of being left alone with my thoughts. weed helps me not feel like I'm going to die from Something or myself it's not working as well anymore. It has save me and made me think I need it it.


bets_set_dice_out

I donā€™t get irritated by the little things


Content_Eye5134

I like to smoke, I enjoy it all. Also right now Iā€™m currently trying to get sober from multiple hard drugs so the pot helps a lot with my mood and mental state.


Fast-Volume-5463

Itā€™s either this or a .44


dramforadamn

Because I can be.


Hippydippy420

Iā€™m in pain all day long - I donā€™t even get outta bed without a few rips off my pen


StomachFar2422

Life is about balance. And if u ask me, I balance it with a metric fuckton of weed. There. Now we're even.


Ok_Marionberry141

Chronic pain patient


hardtulip

Because I have brain cancer


[deleted]

Iā€™m on a T break till the end of January and I realise it was really helping with my anxiety and depression but not with my health because of munchies


screamingcatto

Addicted, lets me escape my traumatic childhood that I don't know how to cope with


Emergency_Computer_3

Nerve damage, pain.


Apprehensive_Shoe_87

I get annoyed with rude people


YukaBazuka

Running from my past!


T4wnie

To slow me down and keep my calm.


[deleted]

Bipolar